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Emily Wilde's Encyclopaedia of Faeries (Emily Wilde, #1)

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Jusqu'au plus profond des Astres

A.J. Twice

• La nouvelle duologie mêlant scientasy et dark academia, des auteurs de La Passeuse de mots, série phénomène aux plus de 110 000 exemplaires vendus. • Un jeune et brillant astronomiste s'associe à une mystérieuse journaliste pour lever le voile sur la disparition de son amour perdu. Un texte à l'atmosphère saisissante qui interroge sur la perte, la mémoire et la quête de soi.Linus Heartgreeves, Astronomiste à l'esprit constellé d'angoisses, est plongé dans un deuil insondable depuis que sa fiancée, Lucia Destrellas, Arkéologiste à l'Académie de Scientasy de Lockford, a disparu lors d'une expédition. Cloîtré dans son manoir, il cherche désespérément, dans les étoiles, un moyen de la retrouver.Sa solitude est troublée par l'arrivée de l'impertinente Diana McBròwn, Exploraliste en quête de rédemption chargée d'écrire à son sujet. Très vite, celle-ci est happée par les mystères qui hantent les lieux : lettres tardives, apparitions fantomatiques... Elle est bientôt rejointe par Santino Rossini, ami précieux du couple d'académiciens qui s'était éloigné, et qui revient dès lors graviter autour de Linus.Ces trois astres réunis vont tenter de préserver les fragments d'une vie brisée, où se mêlent amour, élitisme intellectuel et résistance féminine. Mais, dans un ciel où veillent les Déesses de la Création et de la Dissolution, le temps est compté, car une ombre rôde, menaçant d'engloutir tout ce qu'il reste de lumière...

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Mar 02, 2026

4.0

Enjoyment: 4.0Quality: 4.0Characters: 3.5Plot: 3.5

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Some of these stories were misses for me, but my favourite was "The Murder of Santa Claus." For a short story, I found it very elaborate and reminiscent of Murder on the Orient Express. I also enjoyed "The Girl Who Loved Graveyards" even though I found it more sad than mysterious.

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Sleep No More: Six Murderous Tales

P.D. James

The acknowledged ‘Queen of Crime’, P. D. James, was a past master of the short story, weaving together motifs of the Golden Age of crime-writing with deep psychological insight to create gripping, suspenseful tales. The Mistletoe Murder and Other Stories contained four of these perfectly formed stories, and this companion volume contains a further six, published here together for the first time.

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A Master of Djinn (Dead Djinn Universe, #1)

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“Right, nice conspiracy you’ve concocted. You’re still a murderer!” - Fatma el-Sha’arawi

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“Cool motive, still murder.” - Jake Peralta

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Spring 2026 Readalong

Read at least 1 book in the Spring 2026 Readalong.

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snowseau

Mar 01, 2026

3.5

Enjoyment: 3.0Quality: 4.0Characters: 3.0Plot: 3.0

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This book was beautifully written, but I found that the characters lacked the depth I would have expected from it. Constanta spent so long with the others, yet it feels like I barely know any of them aside from her. Perhaps she didn't feel the need to go into too much detail about them in her letters, but as a reader, it felt lacking.

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A Dowry of Blood (A Dowry of Blood, #1)

S.T. Gibson

S.T. Gibson's sensational novel is the darkly seductive tale of Dracula's first bride, Constanta. This is my last love letter to you, though some would call it a confession. . . Saved from the brink of death by a mysterious stranger, Constanta is transformed from a medieval peasant into a bride fit for an undying king. But when Dracula draws a cunning aristocrat and a starving artist into his web of passion and deceit, Constanta realizes that her beloved is capable of terrible things. Finding comfort in the arms of her rival consorts, she begins to unravel their husband's dark secrets. With the lives of everyone she loves on the line, Constanta will have to choose between her own freedom and her love for her husband. But bonds forged by blood can only be broken by death.

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Reading Round-Up - February 2026 🥞

Let’s round up pancake month 2026!

What was your February: • favourite books: • least favourite books: • total books read:

For March: • What are you planning to read ? • Are there any books releasing you're interested in? • do you have a reading goal for the month?

Bonus Questions for March: • Favourite Spring-Related Book?

• Favourite St David’s Day Tradition? (Also, could do favourite Welsh food or book, etc. or maybe something you’re to try or read! )

• Favourite St Patrick’s Day Tradition? (Also, could do favourite Irish food or book, etc. or maybe something you’re curious to try or read!)

• Book recommendations for (good or bad) relationships/stories with mothers or mother figures (it’s Mother’s Day month in the UK, I know in the US it’s May)

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Daughter of Crows

Mark Lawrence

The survivor of a brutal academy must exhume her own past in the first book in a new series from the international bestselling author of the Library Trilogy and the Broken Empire series.Set a thief to catch a thief. Set a monster to punish monsters. The Academy of Kindness exists to create agents of retribution, cast in the image of the Furies—known as the kindly ones—against whom even the gods hesitate to stand. Each year a hundred girls are sold to the Academy. Ten years later only three will emerge. The Academy’s halls run with blood. The few that survive its decade-long nightmare have been forged on the sands of the Wound Garden. They have learned ancient secrets amid the necrotic fumes of the Bone Garden. They leave its gates as avatars of vengeance, bound to uphold the oldest of laws. Only the most desperate would sell their child to the Kindnesses. But Rue … she sold herself. And now, a lifetime later, a long and bloody lifetime later, just as she has discovered peace, war has been brought to an old woman’s doorstep. That was a mistake.

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The Library of Amorlin

Kalyn Josephson

Former con artist Kasira expected to spend her life as a soldier, miserably working off her prison sentence by hunting down magical creatures for the fanatical kingdom of Kalthos. But when the Kalish ambassador arrives with a non-negotiable assignment, Kasira finds herself swept into the biggest con of her life: infiltrating the Library of Amorlin. As the heart of all magic and the protector of magical creatures throughout the six kingdoms, the Library is historically politically neutral. Kasira is meant to pose as the new Assistant to spy for the ambassador and destabilize the Library from the inside, clearing the way to dethrone its Librarian. But when she arrives, Kasira learns that the Library is not all she was told it would be. Neither is the prickly, handsome Librarian, Allaster, whose own monstrous secrets are about to catch up with him. Swept into the enchanting world of the Library, Kasira’s reluctant con is jeopardized by her growing affection for the wondrous life the Library promises…and by her complicated, burgeoning attraction to Allaster. As the ambassador’s game closes in, Kasira must decide where her loyalties lie: to her newfound home, or to her own survival?

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Lady Tremaine

Rachel Hochhauser

A breathtaking reimagining of Cinderella, as told through the eyes of its iconic "evil" stepmother, revealing a propulsive love story about the lengths a mother will go to for her childrenA widow twice-over, Etheldreda is now saddled with the care of her two children, a priggish stepdaughter, and a razor-taloned peregrine falcon. Her entire life has become a ruse, just like the manor hall they live grand and ornate on the exterior, but crumbling, brick by brick, inside. Fierce in the face of her misfortune, Ethel clings to her family’s respectability, the lifeboat that will float her daughters straight into the secure banks of marriage.When a royal ball offers the chance to secure the future she desperately desires, Etheldreda must risk her secrets, pride, and limited resources in pursuit of an invitation for her daughters—only to see her hopes fulfilled by the wrong one. As an engagement to the heir of the kingdom unfolds with unnerving speed, she discovers a sordid secret hidden in the depths of the royal family, forcing her to choose between the security she’s sought for years and the wellbeing of the feckless stepdaughter who has rebuffed her at every turn.As if Bridgerton met Circe, and exhilarating to its core, Lady Tremaine reimagines the myth of the evil stepmother at the heart of the world’s most famous fairytale. It is a battle cry for a mother’s love for her daughters, and a celebration of women everywhere who make their own fortunes.

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A Dowry of Blood (A Dowry of Blood, #1)

S.T. Gibson

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Running Close to the Wind

Alexandra Rowland

Avra Helvaçi, former field agent of the Araşti Ministry of Intelligence, has accidentally stolen the single most expensive secret in the world―and the only place to flee with a secret that big is the open sea. To find a buyer with deep enough pockets, Avra must ask for help from his on-again, off-again ex, the pirate Captain Teveri az-Ḥaffār. They are far from happy to see him, but together, they hatch a plan: take the information to the isolated pirate republic of the Isles of Lost Souls, fence it, profit. The only things in their way? A calculating new Araşti ambassador to the Isles of Lost Souls who’s got his eyes on Avra’s every move; Brother Julian, a beautiful, mysterious new member of the crew with secrets of his own and a frankly inconvenient vow of celibacy; the fact that they’re sailing straight into sea serpent breeding season and almost certain doom. But if they can find a way to survive and sell the secret on the black market, they’ll all be as wealthy as kings―and, more important, they’ll be legends.

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The Phone Booth at the Edge of the World

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Mar 01, 2026

3.5

Enjoyment: 3.0Quality: 4.5Characters: 4.0Plot: 2.0

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The Phone Booth at the Edge of the World

Laura Imai Messina

The international bestselling novel sold in 21 countries, about grief, mourning, and the joy of survival, inspired by a real phone booth in Japan with its disconnected “wind” phone, a place of pilgrimage and solace since the 2011 tsunami When Yui loses both her mother and her daughter in the tsunami, she begins to mark the passage of time from that date onward: Everything is relative to March 11, 2011, the day the tsunami tore Japan apart, and when grief took hold of her life. Yui struggles to continue on, alone with her pain. Then, one day she hears about a man who has an old disused telephone booth in his garden. There, those who have lost loved ones find the strength to speak to them and begin to come to terms with their grief. As news of the phone booth spreads, people travel to it from miles around. Soon Yui makes her own pilgrimage to the phone booth, too. But once there she cannot bring herself to speak into the receiver. Instead she finds Takeshi, a bereaved husband whose own daughter has stopped talking in the wake of her mother’s death. Simultaneously heartbreaking and heartwarming, The Phone Booth at the Edge of the World is the signpost pointing to the healing that can come after.

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🤔 Language of Emojis❓

With the use of emojis on our reviews, I wanted to kind of just ask a weird question, especially after seeing the theater masks being the featured emoji a minute ago. PB also kind of encourages emojis when we discover books / review books. When I read reviews on here I use my accessibility reader and my phones accessibility reader reads emojis as their proper name. Like take:

🎭 is spoken as “Theater masks representing the performance arts.” 👁️‍🗨️ is spoken as “Eye in a speech bubble representing the anti bullying campaign.”

But I’ve used 🎭 to represent masking, and 👁️‍🗨️ to represent a curse, because that’s how I interpret the emoji visually.

Like take 🎐 since its formal name is ‘wind chime’ people can take it as face value, but I interpret it as summer / windy days. And how 🙏🏼 is usually seen as praying hands but it’s most common use is two people high fiving.

So I just wanted to ask if anyone has used emojis that usually mean one thing, but because it reminds you of something else, you use it a different way? Or if you’ve used an emoji to find out later it has a different meaning? And if you’ve used seemingly simple emojis that actually have a deeper meaning than its emoji suggests.

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Feb 28, 2026

3.5

Enjoyment: 4.0Quality: 4.0Characters: 2.5Plot: 3.0

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This story was appalling, I loved it. Camille spouted so much misogynistic crap that she grew up with and hears from her husband and online "friends." I actually felt bad for her, which says a lot about Schaefer's writing. I was not happy about a single thing that happened in this book, but that made it all the better.

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Trad Wife: A Novel

Saratoga Schaefer

A ‘traditional wife’ influencer allows a demonic creature to impregnate her in this unnerving horror novel, perfect for fans of Nightbitch and Mary, from the author of Serial Killer Support Group. Every #tradwife needs a baby. She’ll get one at any cost.When Camille Deming isn’t cooking, cleaning, or homesteading in her picture-perfect country farmhouse, she’s posting about her tradwife lifestyle for her online followers. She takes inspiration from other tradwives on social media, aspiring to be like them, but Camille’s missing a key a baby. And contrary to what she posts online, things with her husband Graham have been strained. Pressured by her eager followers, Camille fears that without a baby, her relationship will suffer and her social media will never grow out of its infancy.When Camille discovers a mysterious, decrepit well in the wheatfield behind her house, she makes a wish for a baby. Afterwards, she has unsettling experiences that she convinces herself are angelic in nature, and when she’s visited one night by a strange creature, her wish comes true. Camille’s pregnancy announcement gets more engagement than anything she’s ever posted—so what if Graham’s reaction is lukewarm? Camille’s life is finally falling into place. Never mind that her pregnancy is developing freakishly rapidly and she’s suddenly craving raw meat. Being a traditional wife is worth it.Rosemary’s Baby for the digital age, this disturbing horror novel is one you’ll want to devour in just one bite.

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Feb 27, 2026

5.0

Enjoyment: 5.0Quality: 5.0Characters: 5.0Plot: 5.0

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I knew I would love this book, but it still surpassed my expectations. Fawcett's writing style is superb, and her characterization of the cats was so spot-on. It was very reminiscent of Howl's Moving Castle (which I will never complain about), and it felt like a warm hug.

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